


Jesse Rehder Prize for Fiction from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1977 winner of Southeast Playwriting Contest, 1986, and George Oppenheimer Award from Newsday, 1988, both for Mr. Southeast Playwrights Project (member of board of directors, 1989-), PEN, Alternate Roots. Founding member of ACME Theatre Co., 1983-87 chairman of Regional Organization of Theatres-South (ROOTS), 1990-91 About Face Theatre, Chicago, IL, playwright in residence, 1999-2004. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, senior writer-in-residence and director of the Creative Writing Program Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta, GA, playwright in residence, 1986. Agent-Peter Hagan, The Gersh Agency New York, 130 W. Office-Creative Writing Program, Emory University, N 303 B Callaway Center, 537 Kilgo Cir., Atlanta, GA 30322. Politics: "None." Religion: "None." ADDRESSES: Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, B.A., 1978. Born September 21, 1955, in Edgecombe County, NC son of Jasper Melton Grimsley and Mary Elizabeth Hotaling.
